Just Ask

I goggled at the possibilities. "What about him?" I asked. "Isn't there going to be trouble if she just walks home with me?" I was still dealing with the implications of this, and feeling my way along. Still, I knew the answer before Power replied. "You can make him forget her. And her forget him."

I reflected that the girl's mother would probably thank me if I made her forget him. Then I laughed. If I did what I was thinking of, her mother would definitely not be thanking me. Still, I felt a little weird about this; I was contemplating just making someone be my sex toy for a while (I had to consciously think like that).

"I can alter her to be as accommodating or not. She can be responsive or mindless, willing or resistant, as you prefer. Alternatively, I can simply create a duplicate of her. Unlike earlier, this could be fully fleshed out as an independently functioning individual, as I would be copying a real person, rather than trying to synthesize one," Power added, sensing my hesitation.